Friday, December 26, 2014

Letter: NV Energy statements show arrogance

I was interested in NV Energy's release of information of the smart meters they use and the fires related to them. I worked with a company years ago that developed a line of smart meters.

After reading the article in (the Dec. 19) RGJ, I was disappointed. It demonstrated the arrogance of most regulated utilities.

The article began with the NV Energy standard apple pie and motherhood statement about their concern for customers and employee safety and that they have begun safety upgrades. They said the meters were not the problem and did not cause flame outs. Their first improvement will be installing a firmware update that will allow the meter to send a signal to shut down when it overheats — not if it should overheat. Then Rob Stillwell began referring to the fires as "flame outs," never using the word "fire." He fails to mention the fire that killed a person, only addressing those that caused minor damage.

Further, NV Energy's investigator states the meter was working because arcing was found throughout the house. The electrical meter was likely working but I will bet you a dinner that the electronic circuit board that made it a smart meter was burned out. Finally, Stillwell stated NV Energy is changing smart meter companies. The statements from NV Energy do nothing but raise my stink meter very high about what NV Energy is covering up on their taxpayer-funded smart meters.

Smart Meters are not so smart

In response to Ian Dyck’s recent letters supporting FortisBC’s smart meter installations (AMI), Okanagan people need to know that what you can’t see will hurt you.

Eminent, independent, non-industry-funded scientists with expertise in the area of electromagnetic radiation have warned us now for many years that:

a) long-term, low-level, pulsed, non-thermal radio/microwave frequency radiation is harmful to humans and all living things;

b) power line (60 Hz) electromagnetic field (EMF) radiation given off by household wiring, electrical appliances, high voltage power transmission and distribution lines, etc. is equally harmful to humans and all living things.

Deployment of smart meters and their imposition on an unsuspecting population will eventually cause a crisis in human health unseen before in human history.

It wasn’t the firestorm that killed the victims of Dresden, it was the lack of oxygen. It wasn’t the mushroom cloud that killed the victims of the Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombing, it was radiation exposure.

Oxygen and ionizing radiation are invisible, proving that what you can’t see can kill. Oxygen and radiation are invisible, as is non-ionizing radiation at the lower end of the spectrum, i.e. microwaves emitted from cellphones, any wireless gadget, including smart meters.

We’re facing what Dr. Devra Davis, distinguished epidemiologist, author of Disconnect and founder of the Environmental Health Trust in the United States, calls “the slow roll-out of an epidemic.”

Around the world, people are already suffering. They are going to their doctors with symptoms consistent with electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS), yet doctors are untrained in the biological effects of electromagnetic radiation and treat patients according to their symptoms.

This violates the first rule of medicine, which is to remove the patient from the cause of their disease.

Scientific evidence is being swept under the carpet. Confusion over scientific results is being created by people like Dr. William Bailey, of Exponent, a product defence

consultant for FortisBC in last year’s smart meter hearing before the BC Utilities Commission (BCUC).

The BCUC and government officials such as Provincial Health Officer Dr. Perry Kendall are turning a blind eye to the unfolding carnage. FortisBC Smart Meter Project Director Ian Dyck is a businessman.

His sole purpose is to increase corporate profit. BC Hydro is a Crown Corporation. As a government body, BC Hydro is breaking the social contract that binds our society for the benefit of everyone.

A broken contract means that both partners will suffer. Those responsible for implementing wireless technology — especially smart meters — will not escape.

I have decided not to have any smart

meter installed on my house. This after also having read the concise and precise power point presentation by Jerry Flynn, a retired Canadian military officer who spent more than 22 years in Electronic Warfare:

More than 2,500 Internet experts and analysts were narrowly divided on whether policy makers and technology innovators would create a secure, popularly accepted and trusted privacy-rights infrastructure by 2025.

Fifty-five percent didn’t believe a structure to protect privacy would be in place; 45 percent believed such a structure would be created.

“There’s lots of contention about how the future will unfold,” Pew’s Director of Internet, Science and Technology Research Lee Rainie told TechNewsWorld.

This article is intended to be read by responsible people, young or old, who care about life and want to see future generations enjoy a long life on earth in good health. A silent epidemic of cellular damage is underway that is adversely affecting the lives of millions of people who are exposing themselves to high level, WiFi microwave energy fields daily and yet remain oblivious and unconcerned about the biological effects created by those energy fields.

If you are a smartphone user and carry it around with you every day, consider yourself lucky to be reading these words. A small possibility exists that you may stay on this page long enough to read through my comments and then click on one or more of the linked articles below. If you do that, you have a chance of reading enough scientific data and looking at enough graphs explaining to you the damage being inflicted on your cell walls, your DNA, your nervous and your reproductive tissues, that you may say to yourself: "Hey, wait a minute. What am I doing?"

If that serendipitous, awakening moment occurs, then you should also consider yourself a recipient of divine grace, for your Higher Self is trying to tell you something--and lucky for you--you are listening (or at least beginning to listen).

Let me tell you the Bad News up front: You have to get rid of your smartphone permanently and never go back to using one again. You have to remove yourself from any and all WiFi energy field environments as much as possible, whether at home, school, work, internet cafes, Barnes & Noble, Starbucks, etc. Stay out of WiFi energy fields as if your health depends on it ~ because it does. You also have to shield yourself in your home from incoming microwave energy from smart meters or cell phone towers or external microwave transmitters. If you're going to occasionally and rarely use a cell phone to talk to someone for an urgent reason, then NEVER hold it up to your ear as most cell phone users do. Use an air tube style plug-in ear piece with microphone or use the speaker phone and hold the cell phone away from you, or better yet, put it down on something and don't hold it at all.

Most people don't understand that there is a HUGE difference in the microwave energy fields associated with a smartphone versus that of a cell phone. With a smartphone, your are carrying around the microwave energy equivalence of a cell phone tower (mast) in your pocket. With a cell phone, you are getting about 1/100th the amount of microwave energy - and only when you are actually talking on the cell phone (mobile for European readers).

Here are the comments I just posted today to the commentary section of a very good article on the dangers of WiFi energy field exposure. The article is titled:

"I am responding to these comments 11 months late because I didn’t see the article until December 20, 2014. I notice here that two commenters at least are confusing the issue of ionizing nuclear RADIATION and electromagnetic microwave RADIATION used by WiFi devices. Furthermore, it is being suggested that worries about the supposed threat of the supposed ionizing radiation supposedly pouring out of Fukushima or Chernobyl or nuclear power plants is a greater risk to our future health and well being, when the fact is that personal WiFi devices such as smartphones and WiFi environments in the home, school, or office, or from Smart meters, pose a FAR GREATER and IMMEDIATE risk to our future health and well being that seemingly billions (?) of WiFi users around the planet are simply choosing to IGNORE or are oblivious to. I’ve never witnessed such a widespread and wholesale attempt to ignore the dire warnings issued by dozens of authors and made available on thousands of web sites of the VERY REAL dangers and destruction posed to biological systems from WiFi technology. Are so many people on this planet really THIS stupid and brain dead? When do they wake up? When THEY get the surprising and unexpected diagnosis of a brain tumor?" Ken Adachi

If you are among the willfully ignorant who are giving or are anticipating receiving a brand new, all the latest bells & whistles, smartphone this Christmas, then you are indeed, I'm afraid, among the damned. For giving someone a gift of a smartphone is like giving them the "gift" of damaged health or the "gift" of infertility, or even the "gift" of an early death.

I was recently made aware of a series of Skype video recorded interviews with a number of people who are well informed on the dangers of WiFi devices. I've included here three audio files of those interviews which you will find highly informative.

(To prevent too many streaming mp3 files from overloading the server, it's better to download the zip file, unzip it, and then listen with Windows Media player or other media players installed on your computer. To download, simply right click the zip link and click "save as" into your folder of choice. After it downloads, right click the file and choose "upzip here." The extracted file will appear as an mp3 file which you can then play on your computer or upload onto an mp3 player. For people who find it too complicated to download the file, I've included an mp3 file so you can stream directly but it's better to download and keep the file on your own computer for future use.)

TORONTO – People in Ontario are paying billions of dollars extra for electricity thanks to a flawed smart meter program and the above-market rates the province pays most power generators, Ontario’s auditor general reported Tuesday.

“The electricity system is very complex, it’s very difficult to understand,” he said. “I can tell you that some of our senior managers in discussing some of these issues with some of the representatives from the auditor general’s office got the feeling that they didn’t understand some of the elements of it.”

Ratepayers will pay $50 billion between 2006 and 2015 because of an extra charge on their electricity bills that covers the gap between guaranteed prices paid to contracted power generators and the market price, auditor general Bonnie Lysyk wrote in her annual report.

The report also highlighted a “high-risk” loan to a MaRS real estate project in Toronto that left Lysyk uncertain about its benefit to taxpayers, as well as public-private infrastructure projects that are costing billions more than if they were delivered by the public sector.

Lysyk also flagged Ontario’s growing debt as a concern. The net debt was more than $267 billion as of March and even if the Liberal government meets its goal of eliminating the deficit in 2017-18, net debt will have risen to $325 billion, Lysyk projected.

In her analysis of the smart meter program, Lysyk found the extra electricity charge, known as global adjustment, has increased by 1,200 per cent between 2006 and 2013 – meanwhile, the average electricity market price has dropped by 46 per cent.

Most residential and small business ratepayers pay time-of-use pricing, enabled by a $2-billion smart-meter program that has so far spent double its projected cost and has not led to the government’s electricity conservation goals being met, Lysyk wrote.

The global adjustment makes up about 70 per cent of the electricity charge on those customers’ bills and as a result the difference between on-peak and off-peak pricing narrowed to the point where it is “undermining time-of-use pricing as an incentive for ratepayers to shift to off-peak,” Lysyk wrote.

The energy minister hit back hard, saying the global adjustment is “irrelevant” because it would be on people’s bills with or without smart meters, and he said Lysyk got the numbers wrong.

“Why are my numbers more credible than hers?” Chiarelli said, in response to questions after the report’s release. “First of all the electricity system is very complex. It’s very difficult to understand.”

He pegged the smart meter cost at closer to $1.4 billion, and said Lysyk’s conclusions are premature.

“It remains likely that some significant charges will not be passed onto ratepayers after the Ontario Energy Board has an opportunity to review the appropriate regulatory submissions,” Chiarelli said.

The government decided to mandate smart meters in Ontario before it did a cost-benefit analysis and when the analysis ultimately was done, it was flawed and its projected net benefit of $600 million was overstated by at least $512 million, Lysyk wrote.

“As a result, electricity ratepayers in Ontario are paying significantly more for this initiative in their monthly electricity bills than was originally intended,” she wrote.

The leaders of both opposition parties called Chiarelli’s reaction to the report “unprecedented” arrogance.

“Billions and billions of dollars piled up and what do they do? Turn around and say the auditor isn’t accurate. Yes, Mr. Chiarelli should resign,” said Interim Progressive Conservative Leader Jim Wilson.

“You’ve been ripping off consumers and someone’s head has to fall for it.”

NDP Leader Andrea Horwath called the auditor’s report “troubling” and said the government should take it seriously.

“While we’re entitled to our own opinions, the Liberals aren’t entitled to their own facts and trying to trash the auditor simply doesn’t change that.”

It's time to walk away from smart meter manufacturer Sensus and demand a full refund, according to the NDP after yet another smart meter fire Tuesday.

WireService.ca Media Release (12/17/2014) Regina, SK - NDP Deputy Leader Trent Wotherspoon also called on the government to come clean about the dangers of smart meters on homes over the winter. It claimed Saskatchewan families would be safe because the rash of smart meter fires had been caused by rain, but with Tuesday's fire in sub-zero temperatures, that's obviously not true.

"It's time to break it off with this company that has created one fire-prone dud model after another," said Wotherspoon. "Get our money back, and get Sensus meters out of Saskatchewan permanently."

The government signed a secret settlement with Sensus, promising to give the American company another $18 million of Saskatchewan's money, or buy more of the company's smart meters in the future.

"That's not on," said Wotherspoon. "Sensus version 3.2 started fires in Saskatchewan and across North America. Sensus version 3.3 started fires in Saskatchewan and across North America. Now the government is actually using taxpayer money to pay Sensus to come up with version 3.4, and expecting different results. That's ludicrous.

Wotherspoon said the NDP wants the government to recover the $5 million gift it gave Sensus to develop a new meter, and the $18 million being held for the purchase of new Sensus smart meters. He added that the government should not rule out taking legal action to recover Saskatchewan ratepayers' money if necessary.

Wotherspoon also reiterated his call for the government to make the removal of the dangerous smart meters an urgent priority, getting them off families' homes much quicker than their current timeline.

Peevey Farewell Love Fest Disrupted by
Smart Meter Protests

The December 18th 2014 meeting of the CPUC
(a.k.a. the utility/telecommunications industry now acting as the California
Public Utilities Commission) was the last for Mike Peevey- former SoCal Edison
CEO and “mob boss” – a man who has driven the
forced deployment of smart meters in California- and violated disability,
privacy, and safety laws repeatedly to benefit his industry clients.

photo credit Justin Mears

Outside the CPUC, on busy Van Ness Ave., mourners
in black had gathered around a coffin representing victims of the smart grid,
listening to eulogies to the lost and naming those responsible. A press
release had been issued and the media invited. The press however turned
their back on the funeral and were clustered instead around San Bruno mayor Jim
Ruane and Senator Jerry Hill, their attention on PG&E’s other, more
blatant, obvious, and sudden victims.

Death
attends the press conference at the CPUC in SF to thank Michael Peevey and the
PUC for lots of new customers

Inside, nauseated attendees suffered
through an orchestrated Peevey-love-fest that droned on for 2 1/2 hours and
quickly discovered that the public comment period was an opportunity for the
corporate state to crow about how wonderful the man is––and how wonderful
they are.

Their gushing praise an attempt to
insulate him and thus themselves with their seedy entanglements from
future prosecution for the deaths in San Bruno and deaths and injuries from
hazardous smart meters. After all, Michael Peevey, an early architect of
the smart grid, is now facing investigation and possible prosecution by the US
Attorney’s office and California’s Attorney General.

An entire section of public seats had been
reserved for the pro-Peevey speakers and time limits were waived––as long as
you had nice things to say…

While Peevey’s praises were being sung, I
was thinking about the many families that have an empty place at the table this
Christmas because of his lax to non-existent regulatory policies. Deaths
from fireresulting from second rate equipment being
installed by second rate temp workers- it all could have been prevented.
How many are suffering in what used to be a home and what is now just a place
to tolerate?

The endless stream of people harmed by
smart meters parading to the podium in the last 5 years will certainly cloud
Peevey’s legacy. Yet, as usual the public uprising was only lightly
touched upon by the media. In fact, as Sandi Maurer of the EMF Safety Network has pointed
out, the San Jose Mercury News appears to have censored a
reporter who went into some detail about the smart meter protests at the
meeting, with large portions of the coverage having been removed from the
original online article.

Representatives from state government
agencies, financial beneficiaries of his policies on Wall Street, and corporate
groups like EDF and NRDC crowed at the public’s
podium about how compassionate to those less fortunate Peevey is, what a
defender of the environment—a leader on climate change!

Returning to their reserved seats, they
checked for updates on their melting-ski slope-holidays, pawing at their
wireless devices as one by one, speakers went into grim detail about the
misery, illness and suffering caused by exposure to wireless devices.

photo credit: Justin Mears

Members of the public (many of them
injured by smart meters), were forced to sit through the hours-long,
back-slapping-love-fest and thick electrosmog so that they might finally have a
chance to address the commission (strictly timed of course). Yet should they
speak over their allotted time, or bring up unacceptable subject matter they
risked being escorted out of the room by one of the armed state police,
standing by and ready to protect—should things get out of hand.

What a corrupt sour mess!

Pay for Protection: The Utility Scam and
Growing Public Revolt

Approving smart meter extortion fees and
denying ADA rights was also on the agenda that day.

In response, we carried out a coordinated
public demonstration of disgust and revulsion against Peevey’s CPUC, standing
up in the meeting and holding signs naming the crimes and reading aloud the
names of smart meter victims – including testimonies from thousands of
California residents and those who spoke at public hearings all over the state
who were ignored in the smart meter “opt out” proceeding.

While corporate patrons of Mr. Peevey were
given up to ten minutes and allowed to wax lyrical, some smart meter and
corruption critics were cut off after a few seconds- even surrounded by 3 state
police when one speaker suggested that Peevey “belongs in prison” (it may not
be far off- he is currently being investigated by the US Attorney and state
Attorney General….)

The ones really protecting
health and safety are never welcome at an agency tasked with “protecting health
and safety.”

After lunch, without any debate or
discussion apart from the usual platitudes, the commission approved a plan to
charge every California customer of an investor owned utility who uses an
analog (rather than a “smart” meter) to measure gas or electricity $75 and $10/
month ($10 and $5/ month for low income). Those living with
a bank of meters on their wall, businesses and communities as a whole would not
be allowed to “opt out” at all, and even those with letters from their doctors
and diagnoses of electro-hyper-sensitivity would not be permitted to retain
basic utility service without paying the “opt out” charges if this
decision is allowed to stand.

The commission then unanimously
approved Peevey’s version of the proposed decisionwhich
added a 3 year limit to (or sunset on) individual residence opt out fees.
Questions persist about the details and rationale for this.

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While I have always been extremely health conscious and am presently in excellent health, I did become temporarily out-of-commission (i.e. I was really sick) in 2005 with a number of at the time unexplainable symptoms. I was quite puzzled at the time because I had been eating mainly organically grown food, drinking spring water, doing Yoga every morning, and going to the gym several times a week. In other words, I was doing everything one is supposed to do to stay healthy. I was not supposed to get sick. It took me six months before discovering or even imagining the main source of the problem - which was in fact "overexposure to electromagnetic" - especially microwave - radiation. I was living within 200 meters of two cell phone towers at the time and within 500 meters of a 3rd one with numerous WiFi signals bleeding into my apartment from adjacent neighbors. I developed a host of symptoms, which are found in what has been misleadingly described as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) -- but much more accurately described as Radio Wave or Microwave Sickness. Large numbers of people in the USA suddenly started getting sick in 1984...